Hi,
I tried the enclosure with my 20GB hard drive in it on my fathers
computer. He has windows XP and the exact same problems occurred. I
tried it using his USB 2.0 connection and still the same things
happened. Only USB 1.1 seemed not to have these problems.
I have figured out a way to get the drive to work. The only way appears
to format the hard drive when it is in the enclosure. This is not
something I want to do right now as my 20GB drive only has about 100MB
of free space on it.
I found this out by taking an old 4GB hard drive and putting it into
the enclosure. I then formated the hard drive and ran scan disk on it.
Everything checked out okay. To make sure, I then copied 1.3GB of data
to the drive and then copied it back to my internal hard drives. There
were absolutely no problems.
Hopefully this information might help someone else that is having the
same problems. I can't format my 20GB drive yet but I will after I move
all of my files to CD. Good luck to everyone and thank you for your help
on this issue.
Dan
Flake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using a Pentium III 733MHz with 384MB RAM with a Maxtor 40GB
> Primary Master, 60 GB Primary Slave, HP 9300+ CD-Writer Secondary
> Master, 16x DVD-ROM noname brand as Secondary Slave. I have a CompUSA
> PCI 1394 Firewire adapter, geforce 2 MX video, Creative SB Live sound.
> The external hard drive enclosure is from CompUSA and supports Firewire,
> USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. The drive works fine in USB 1.1 but not in
> firewire. Don't have USB 2.0 so I don't know if this will work or not. I
> am running Windows 98 SE with all of the critical updates.
>
> I am having a VERY aggravating problem with an external hard drive.
> The hard drive is on a 1394 port (firewire). Whenever I want to copy
> files from it to my IDE hard drives, the access LED on the external
> drive stops flashing and eventually an error pops up. According to the
> Microsoft Knowledge Base, I have to update the 1394bus.sys file and the
> ohci1394.sys file. I have all of the updates that I need from Microsoft.
> My version of the files are 4.10.2224 which was upgraded through a
> special patch I downloaded from microsoft. It used to be 4.10.2222. The
> MSKB mentions another update for version 4.10.222x where x is either 6
> or 8, can't remember which, but won't tell me where or how to get this
> update. Sometimes the drive will show an error message stating that it
> can't write to the drive. The problem with this message is that I was
> reading from the drive at the time, not writing. My firewire card works
> fine because I am able to get video from a firewire digital camcorder.
> This problem is really driving me nuts. I have usually managed to
> find out how to fix problems that I have with my computer through
> internet searches and newsgroup searches on google but I can't this
> time. If any one has been able to fix this problem, please let me know
> how you did it.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Dan
>
|
Similar Threads
